The Indiana Performing Arts Intiative - a new professional summer stock theatre training program

In 2016, Claude McNeal Productions joined forces with the IUPUI Music Academy and 'Hoosier Bard Productions' at IUPUI to form a new training
program for high school and college youth interested in the performing arts. The result was a highly successful first professional summer stock season featuring Jekyll & Hyde: the
Broadway musical, and the absurdist play, Six Charactes in Search of an Author. Jekyll & Hyde was voted one of the top 5 plays produced in Indy in
2016!

2017 Summer Stock Season

Our 2017 Series included two very highly-successful productions, breaking attendance records from our first year. These incldued the Broadway cult comedy
classic, "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee', and an original cabaret-style review of Tony Award Winning Hits, called "On Broadway"

Each year, we've worked wtih over 30 local arists, all working alongside seasoned theatre professionals currently working in the field of theatre for a
unique, one-of-a kind training opportunity.